Balaclava is an area on the south-east of Sevastopol, the name of Balaklava in Turkish means 'Fish Nest' (Balyk-luv). Balaclava is situated in a magnificent harbour. Balaclava has everything - exclusive nature, peaks Fiolent and Aya, dreamy ruins of Genovese Chembalo fortification, shadowy prehistoric cathedrals, and the Black Sea!

Nowadays Chersonesos Taurica is place of the Gagarin district of Sevastopol city. The town founded by early Greeks on the Heracleus neck of land on the South-West of Crimea. For a long period of time (two thousand years) it was a big social, economic and cultural center of Northern part of Black Sea territory.